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medical termage
medical terms ch.8
Question | Answer |
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-stasis | stopping |
-poiesis | formation |
-emia | blood condition |
poikil/o | irregular |
chrom/o | color |
hem/o | blood |
cyt/0 | cell |
kary/o | cells nucleus |
plasma | liquid part of lymph and blood |
platelet | cell in blood required for clotting,clots in site of injury |
serum | blood plasma(minus clotting factor) |
heme | non-protein part of a hemoglobin that contains iron |
leukocyte | white blood cell |
thrombocyte | platelet |
albumin | helps maintain blood volume and pressure(simple proteins in tissue) |
angioplasty | invasive procedure to alter the interior of a blood vessel |
angina | pain radiating from the heart to the shoulder and left arm, feeling of suffocation |
adenitis | inflamation of the lymph nodes or glands |
anticoagulant | substance that prohibits the coagulation of blood |
arteriosclerosis | degeneration and hardening of the walls of arteries |
atherosclerosis | fatty degeneration of the arteries |
bicuspid | heart vlave between the left atrium and ventricle. aka:mitral valve |
embolism | presence of an obstrction in a blood vessel |
ischemia | temporary and localized anemia caused by an obstruction of the circulation to a part |
infarction | infiltration of foreign particles; material in a vessel |
-osis | condition,status,process, sometimes denoting an abnormal increase |